IIRC, they are involved in building voting machines as well, so obviously they want to hurt Diebold (not that Diebold doesn't deserve it, apparently).
Not to mention that SAIC is in bed with Bush and the CIA. They're the LAST people who should be connected with voting machines in any way, shape or form.
That idiot David Kay they have over in Iraq acting as "Mr. Fixit" for Bush's lies about WMDs was or is a bigwig at SAIC, IIRC.
It just doesn't get more obvious than this. Why not have Bush's right-wing Christian Zionists just hire Israeli commandos to strong-arm people entering the voting booths?
If you want to be an ignorant dolt who believes George Bush and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limburger Cheese about everything, forget about the Net and just listen to Fox News and Clear Channel.
Otherwise, get the fuck out of my face with this nonsense.
and explains things rather well, and should be required reading for any company concerned about Linux or the GPL.
However, since SCO is essentially an extortion racket, it's irrelevant to them.
This is like writing John Giotti a letter saying that crime doesn't pay. Or writing Saddam Hussein a letter saying a country runs better under a democracy (does it? Looking around, I'm beginning to wonder...)
I learned early in programming inventory systems that they ALWAYS say that even if the stuff wasn't stolen, but never ordered. It's amazing how out of touch an inventory system can get and like almost immediately. Do a physical inventory one week and by next week, it will still be out of touch with reality. Why? Computers do not control the humans who actually control the inventory.
Most inventory systems definitely have never heard of "shortage" and expect physical inventories to be done like once a quarter or once a year. In the chain of beauty salons I worked at, they were done weekly for certain classes of inventory because there was no way to control the shortage otherwise.
And for a book called "Steal This Book"? Fergeddabotit!
were some of the dumbest posts I've seen on Slashdot.
One moron wants to "thoroughly comb" the woods. This idiot has never been in ANY woods, let alone the Pacific Northwest, the Chiapas province, or anywhere else where the territory is seriously rugged. Nor does he have any experience, as the late Ivan Sanderson had, in animal collecting. Sanderson once pointed out that animal collectors do not "comb" an area for their collections, and that no one has yet used animal collecting technigues to get close to this creature.
One claims that if the creature existed, it would be at the top of the food chain. It is. That's why there aren't many of them. It is competing with humans for the last ten thousand years. We know nothing of how many there used to be on this continent. The Native Americans knew of these creatures and being fully human competed efficiently to reduce their numbers.
Also we know nothing of its reproductive habits, other than that it seems to operate in small family units, not so much groups as many other primates do. Reports indicate it's intelligence is less than human (by how much it is not clear) but far higher than any other animal. This is NOT an APE. It is a relative (how distant we don't know) of humanity.
There is also the question of how much this creature needs to eat to sustain an 800-lb primate. It is clearly omniverous, and while it is apparently capable of taking any game it can catch, we don't how easy it would be to sustain a large population of animals of this size and of this nature. Given the reduction in large game and fish by human territorial expansion, the creature may be reduced to browsing vegetation, and the occasional deer and some fish, which may have made it difficult to support a large population given human pressures on its environment. Absent a detailed scientific study of the subject, the objection about population is speculative.
The rest of the posts about whether "girl geeks" exist speaks for itself.
Reminds me of the sci-fi story, "Little Heroes", where the cyber-revolutionaries were distributing hacker programs called "bedbugs" to the poor for free which were used to nickel-and-dime the US Treasury and the IRS to death!
Actually, Neo should have said, "Neither one of them has a future!" (While he was still allowed - to - speak, of course!) That's certainly my position!
- that they can't even figure out how to sell a license.
Their only function at this time is to conduct nuisance lawsuits. For that they just need lawyers, not sales people or even receptionists. Okay, they need PR flacks, too, since they have no hope of winning in court, they can only hope to win in the media.
These guys really need to move to Asia, where this sort of business dealing (i.e., fraud and criminal negligence) is normal.
SCO may "own" whatever the hell it damn well pleases.
But the open source movement controls it.
As Leto Atreides said, "He who can destroy a thing controls that thing."
We can continue to distribute Linux anywhere and everywhere and can continue to use it in violation of any and all intellectual property law. And I'm sure the Chinese will, too.
So while SCO may make Linux persona non grata in the business world, we will continue to use it as if they did not exist. And it will continue to evolve as if they did not exist.
Do I have kids? Hell, no, thank my fat ass women don't find me that attractive that they want kids by me.
Would I let kids watch porn? You bet! And I'd teach them the difference between well-done porn (assuming I could find some) and crap.
Would I let kids watch violent movies and play violent games? You bet! And I'd teach them martial arts so they know the proper philosophy to apply to violence. And I'd teach them firearms so they would handle them properly and know how to deal with situations where firearms are in play.
If you don't do that, you're a lousy parent. Period.
"Sheltering" is bullshit. There is reality and there is fantasy. Sheltering is fantasy. Reality is learning how to deal with reality. That is what a parent of a human is supposed to do - train the human to deal with human reality so the human isn't a problem for every other human. And ignorance and incompetence are the two major ways humans become a problem for other humans.
In ancient tribal times, the tribe (not just the parents) assumed responsibility for the preparation of the young to be responsible members of the tribe. Then we went to the "nuclear family" horseshit in which every ill-trained monkey is responsible for rearing hordes of even more ill-trained monkeys. And then people wonder why, as Woody Allen puts it, "Nothing works and nobody cares."
If you have a kid, it is your responsibility to the rest of the human race to not raise another fucking asshole. Do it, or get out of the business.
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'I just got a call from a VP an hour ago saying "Take a look at Microsoft for the stuff you are doing."'
Give him "Neo's Response":
"How about I give you the finger [display "the finger"] and you give me my phone call?"
But don't worry! George Bush is not relying on a bunch of voting machines to get him into office next year. He has an entire Korean War lined up for that.
Instead of worrying about voter fraud, better start worrying about who on the West Coast will have a nuke popped off near them (delivered by sub from North Korea, courtesy of Georgie Bush).
get serious. SCO is pulling a corporate stock scam, nothing more. They are trying to win the case in the media, puff up their stock price, sell out and run for Brazil before the FTC and SEC catch up with them.
Period. End of story.
Now Slashdot can get back to covering Georgy Russell's campaign for governor of California - preferably with pictures.
"it would be impossible for it to know when a peice of code was being mis used improperly, cause technically the code is doing exactly what it was supposed to do."
This reminds me of my IT career. I was repeatedly hired by companies who paid $50,000 to some idiot to fuck up their systems. Then they hired me at $9/hour to fix those same systems.
All I ever wanted in my IT career was the chance to fuck up a system for $50,000.
Instead I had to turn to robbing banks, which got me eight years in the joint, made me obsolete, made me miss the dot-com explosion, and further reduced my net lifetime income.
Now I have to try to do freelance tech support for individuals and small businesses for $10-15/hour.
Meanwehile, Bill Gates has screwed up the entire IT industry beyond all repair and is the richest guy in the world.
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IIRC, they are involved in building voting machines as well, so obviously they want to hurt Diebold (not that Diebold doesn't deserve it, apparently).
Not to mention that SAIC is in bed with Bush and the CIA. They're the LAST people who should be connected with voting machines in any way, shape or form.
That idiot David Kay they have over in Iraq acting as "Mr. Fixit" for Bush's lies about WMDs was or is a bigwig at SAIC, IIRC.
It just doesn't get more obvious than this. Why not have Bush's right-wing Christian Zionists just hire Israeli commandos to strong-arm people entering the voting booths?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Who says this ISN'T going to happen? You?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
If you want to be an ignorant dolt who believes George Bush and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limburger Cheese about everything, forget about the Net and just listen to Fox News and Clear Channel.
Otherwise, get the fuck out of my face with this nonsense.
and explains things rather well, and should be required reading for any company concerned about Linux or the GPL.
However, since SCO is essentially an extortion racket, it's irrelevant to them.
This is like writing John Giotti a letter saying that crime doesn't pay. Or writing Saddam Hussein a letter saying a country runs better under a democracy (does it? Looking around, I'm beginning to wonder...)
I learned early in programming inventory systems that they ALWAYS say that even if the stuff wasn't stolen, but never ordered. It's amazing how out of touch an inventory system can get and like almost immediately. Do a physical inventory one week and by next week, it will still be out of touch with reality. Why? Computers do not control the humans who actually control the inventory.
Most inventory systems definitely have never heard of "shortage" and expect physical inventories to be done like once a quarter or once a year. In the chain of beauty salons I worked at, they were done weekly for certain classes of inventory because there was no way to control the shortage otherwise.
And for a book called "Steal This Book"? Fergeddabotit!
were some of the dumbest posts I've seen on Slashdot.
One moron wants to "thoroughly comb" the woods. This idiot has never been in ANY woods, let alone the Pacific Northwest, the Chiapas province, or anywhere else where the territory is seriously rugged. Nor does he have any experience, as the late Ivan Sanderson had, in animal collecting. Sanderson once pointed out that animal collectors do not "comb" an area for their collections, and that no one has yet used animal collecting technigues to get close to this creature.
One claims that if the creature existed, it would be at the top of the food chain. It is. That's why there aren't many of them. It is competing with humans for the last ten thousand years. We know nothing of how many there used to be on this continent. The Native Americans knew of these creatures and being fully human competed efficiently to reduce their numbers.
Also we know nothing of its reproductive habits, other than that it seems to operate in small family units, not so much groups as many other primates do. Reports indicate it's intelligence is less than human (by how much it is not clear) but far higher than any other animal. This is NOT an APE. It is a relative (how distant we don't know) of humanity.
There is also the question of how much this creature needs to eat to sustain an 800-lb primate. It is clearly omniverous, and while it is apparently capable of taking any game it can catch, we don't how easy it would be to sustain a large population of animals of this size and of this nature. Given the reduction in large game and fish by human territorial expansion, the creature may be reduced to browsing vegetation, and the occasional deer and some fish, which may have made it difficult to support a large population given human pressures on its environment. Absent a detailed scientific study of the subject, the objection about population is speculative.
The rest of the posts about whether "girl geeks" exist speaks for itself.
This is on a par with the "silly putty" article.
Yeah, right.
And then it turns into a IP debate.
Reminds me of the sci-fi story, "Little Heroes", where the cyber-revolutionaries were distributing hacker programs called "bedbugs" to the poor for free which were used to nickel-and-dime the US Treasury and the IRS to death!
Could happen.
Actually, Neo should have said, "Neither one of them has a future!" (While he was still allowed - to - speak, of course!) That's certainly my position!
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- that they can't even figure out how to sell a license.
Their only function at this time is to conduct nuisance lawsuits. For that they just need lawyers, not sales people or even receptionists. Okay, they need PR flacks, too, since they have no hope of winning in court, they can only hope to win in the media.
These guys really need to move to Asia, where this sort of business dealing (i.e., fraud and criminal negligence) is normal.
SCO may "own" whatever the hell it damn well pleases.
But the open source movement controls it.
As Leto Atreides said, "He who can destroy a thing controls that thing."
We can continue to distribute Linux anywhere and everywhere and can continue to use it in violation of any and all intellectual property law. And I'm sure the Chinese will, too.
So while SCO may make Linux persona non grata in the business world, we will continue to use it as if they did not exist. And it will continue to evolve as if they did not exist.
And eventually, they will not exist.
And we will remain.
Have a nice day, Darl.
Do I have kids? Hell, no, thank my fat ass women don't find me that attractive that they want kids by me.
Would I let kids watch porn? You bet! And I'd teach them the difference between well-done porn (assuming I could find some) and crap.
Would I let kids watch violent movies and play violent games? You bet! And I'd teach them martial arts so they know the proper philosophy to apply to violence. And I'd teach them firearms so they would handle them properly and know how to deal with situations where firearms are in play.
If you don't do that, you're a lousy parent. Period.
"Sheltering" is bullshit. There is reality and there is fantasy. Sheltering is fantasy. Reality is learning how to deal with reality. That is what a parent of a human is supposed to do - train the human to deal with human reality so the human isn't a problem for every other human. And ignorance and incompetence are the two major ways humans become a problem for other humans.
In ancient tribal times, the tribe (not just the parents) assumed responsibility for the preparation of the young to be responsible members of the tribe. Then we went to the "nuclear family" horseshit in which every ill-trained monkey is responsible for rearing hordes of even more ill-trained monkeys. And then people wonder why, as Woody Allen puts it, "Nothing works and nobody cares."
If you have a kid, it is your responsibility to the rest of the human race to not raise another fucking asshole. Do it, or get out of the business.
'I just got a call from a VP an hour ago saying "Take a look at Microsoft for the stuff you are doing."'
Give him "Neo's Response":
"How about I give you the finger [display "the finger"] and you give me my phone call?"
Or perhaps "Gee, we can strike here! No one is watching except geeks!"
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
Yeah, that'll work.
How about I give you the finger [displays "the finger"] and you give me my phone call?
Let's here it for government security!
Reminds me of Rutger Hauer in the Stallone movie, "Nighthawks" - "Remember, there is no security!"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Now can someone in the US wheel Bush out of the White House?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
But you didn't listen!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
But don't worry! George Bush is not relying on a bunch of voting machines to get him into office next year. He has an entire Korean War lined up for that.
Instead of worrying about voter fraud, better start worrying about who on the West Coast will have a nuke popped off near them (delivered by sub from North Korea, courtesy of Georgie Bush).
Two years into Microsoft's "security initiative" in which all their code was supposed to be tightened up and made more secure?
Reminds me of the Max Headroom line:
"Remember when we said there was no future? Well, this is it!"
How about Bruce Linux?
get serious. SCO is pulling a corporate stock scam, nothing more. They are trying to win the case in the media, puff up their stock price, sell out and run for Brazil before the FTC and SEC catch up with them.
Period. End of story.
Now Slashdot can get back to covering Georgy Russell's campaign for governor of California - preferably with pictures.
Well, that's what I heard!
(Followup Murray line)
I reach for my revolver.
.45 with sound suppressor.)
(Actually that was a paraphrase of Goering - I reach for a Glock 21
The only "nanoethics" I need is MY interpretation of Transhumanism.
Have a nice day.
"it would be impossible for it to know when a peice of code was being mis used improperly, cause technically the code is doing exactly what it was supposed to do."
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Dude...
This reminds me of my IT career. I was repeatedly hired by companies who paid $50,000 to some idiot to fuck up their systems. Then they hired me at $9/hour to fix those same systems.
All I ever wanted in my IT career was the chance to fuck up a system for $50,000.
Instead I had to turn to robbing banks, which got me eight years in the joint, made me obsolete, made me miss the dot-com explosion, and further reduced my net lifetime income.
Now I have to try to do freelance tech support for individuals and small businesses for $10-15/hour.
Meanwehile, Bill Gates has screwed up the entire IT industry beyond all repair and is the richest guy in the world.
There is no justice. Trust me.
That bit about Leda and the Swan?
I can't buy it! It's not physically possible!
I object to this sort of misrepresentation of reality!